captain_anchovy
my impression of Turbos is great when new then inevitably failing with a bit of mileage leading to expensive repairs.
any/all comments welcome as to whether my statement is true, partially true or false.
back in the dreamtime hi tech was twin carbys.
Ghettobird
Turbos are gods gift to mankind
Slowbrick
Change the oil often. Change your filter often. Keep the temps down and they last for ages. I kept a 15g alive for 2 year with serious shaft play just by running synthetic oil and changing it every 3000kms. That was back in the day when I was poor AF and swapping it out just wasnt an option. Remember that shit @Philia_Bear ?
captain_anchovy
Ghettobird;103582 wrote
Thought that was super chargers.
Philia_Bear
Slowbrick;103583 wroteChange the oil often. Change your filter often. Keep the temps down and they last for ages. I kept a 15g alive for 2 year with serious shaft play just by running synthetic oil and changing it every 3000kms. That was back in the day when I was poor AF and swapping it out just wasnt an option. Remember that shit
@Philia_Bear ?
I need to remember to put some shrimp shells in your hubcaps still to get even over that :-P
tbro
I've a couple of million k's units in my fleet and one has just had its first turbo, didn't fail, just thought it about time.
As @Slowbrick said change oil often, filter as well and run quality products and it should last heaps.
Having said that I've seen a brand new Mack being delivered that dropped the turbo, meh, shit happens.
As a side note Scania, state that your turbo should be replaced every 400,000 kms, mine get done at a lot more than that.
Another thing from the old days was you had to idle your motor for a min of 5 mins after highway running, we disproved that by doing 60kph for 3 mins coming into the depot and shutting down, lost 1 turbo during our trial period on a motor with 800+ ks, done @ Finemores during 1993. Saved the company over 1 million dollars over the trial period of 12 months.
Vee_Que
L94 Scania route buses do fail at the 400k mark.
Most turbo failures anchovy are owner related, coming straight off the Freeway and turning the car off, avoiding oil changes, and worn out engines is usually involved for a turbo failures.
My brothers tdi mk3 golf is at 340,000kms on a completely original motor, it comes down to maintainance.
Major Ledfoot
The US experience with redblock turbos seems to be over 200k + miles and they're still going reasonably strong - these are for regular ma & pa privately owned cars, not taxis or similar.
The B20B had twin carbies... It certainly wasn't high tech.
jamesinc
The turbo in my 850 was refurbished at the 10 year mark, and it's now at the 20 year mark and probably will need another refurb in the next few years. The thing with turbos is, so long as you keep tabs on their health, you shouldn't have too many issues, but if they blow up and embed chunks of compressor wheel in the valve seat, that's when it gets real expensive.
Philia_Bear
bgpzfm142;103600 wrote
13c on my wagon was very dead at 130k miles, as was the block
had always been serviced correctly... my dad just abused the utter EFF out of it for 12+ years (iirc averaged 17MPG)
Vee_Que
Yeah. Thats an outlier, like the air filter didn't work sort of thing and wore the bores out.
Philia_Bear
Vee_Que;103627 wroteYeah. Thats an outlier, like the air filter didn't work sort of thing and wore the bores out.
Air filter was good on it
I think the hours on it were huge though due to dc driving
Garth
truck turbos often go past 600,000 ks well they get checked then and most just get re installed i see no reason why a car one should have a short lifeas long as it has a goid oil supply oays to check oil inlet because with the heat and lack of oil changes carbon can build up eventually starving them of oil
Garth
damn phone biught a screen protector and now i mis type a lot